BIRDWATCHING MORE VULNERABLE BIRDS Walpole-Nornalup National Park has a wide range of habitats for birds including coastline, rivers, inlets, heathlands and forested areas. Due to the mosaic nature of the vegetation and the high mobility of most bird species there is considerable overlap in the species richness between all these landforms. BIRDS Crested Shrike-tit Typically feeds high in There are many good sites for birdwatching; the Coalmine in and around the eucalypts. Uncommon Heritage Trail, Hilltop Lookout and surrounding forest, Mt. to rare. Sedentary. Frankland, Mt. Burnett, and the mouth of Nornalup Inlet to WALPOLE-NORNALUP name just a few. Watch carefully along verges of gravel roads through the forest. NATIONAL PARK VULNERABLE BIRDS Many birds are vulnerable to disturbance by human activity, motorised vehicles and the effect of fire on the Number 28b in a series of structure and composition of vegetation. People are urged Bird Guides of Western Australia to keep to walk trails, avoid driving on beaches (where Hooded Plovers and Fairy Terns may be nesting), observe Information has been prepared by the Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo fire regulations and please remember no dogs are allowed Camps in tall trees. Nests in in national parks. Walpole-Nornalup National Parks Association in conjunction with large tree hollows in forest areas. Birds Australia Western Australia Hoarse brassy call uttered in flight or at regular intervals when perching. Hooded Plover In pairs or family parties this wader nests on sandy foreshores and estuaries. It potters along the edge of spent waves. Vulnerable to Translocation of the Western Bristlebird from the Two vehicles and dogs. People Bay Nature Reserve to coastal heathland of the Nuyts Wilderness commenced in 1999. Fire management is crucial. Please notify the Department of Environment and Conservation (9840-0400) or the Walpole-Nornalup National Parks Association (9840-1309) if you hear these birds calling. The voice of the male is a quick 'chip-pee-tee peetle-pet' and the female is 'tink'. Southern Emu-wren Found in coastal vegetation. Tail is long, sparse and nearly twice the length of its body. Sedentary. Purple-crowned Lorikeet Vulnerable to broad scale burning. Western Bristlebird Illustrations by Susan Tingay Revised Apr 2009 CHECKLIST - BIRDS OF THE WALPOLE-NORNALUP NATIONAL PARK Emu Brown Falcon Red-winged Fairy-wren Malleefowl Australian Hobby Southern Emu-wren Stubble Quail Peregrine Falcon Western Bristlebird Brown Quail Purple Swamphen White-browed Scrubwren Musk Duck Buff-banded Rail Weebill Freckled Duck Spotless Crake Western Gerygone Black Swan Dusky Moorhen Yellow-rumped Thornbill Australian Shelduck Eurasian Coot Western Thornbill Australian Wood Duck Australian Pied Oystercatcher Inland Thornbill Pink-eared Duck Sooty Oystercatcher Spotted Pardalote Australasian Shoveler Black-winged Stilt Striated Pardalote Grey Teal Banded Stilt Western Spinebill Chestnut Teal Grey Plover Singing Honeyeater Pacific Black Duck Red-capped Plover White-eared Honeyeater Hardhead Black-fronted Dotterel Yellow-plumed Honeyeater Blue-billed Duck Hooded Plover Western Wattlebird Australasian Grebe Red-kneed Dotterel Red Wattlebird Hoary-headed Grebe Bar-tailed Godwit White-fronted Chat Great Crested Grebe Whimbrel Tawny-crowned Honeyeater Rock Dove Common Sandpiper Brown Honeyeater Laughing Dove Common Greenshank New Holland Honeyeater Common Bronzewing Wood Sandpiper White-cheeked Honeyeater Brush Bronzewing Ruddy Turnstone Brown-headed Honeyeater Crested Pigeon Red Knot White-naped Honeyeater Tawny Frogmouth Sanderling White-browed Babbler Australian Owlet-nightjar Red-necked Stint Varied Sittella Yellow-nosed Albatross Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Flesh-footed Shearwater Curlew Sandpiper White-winged Triller Australasian Gannet Painted Button-quail Crested Shrike-tit Australasian Darter Fairy Tern Golden Whistler Little Pied Cormorant Caspian Tern Rufous Whistler Great Cormorant Crested Tern Grey Shrike-thrush Little Black Cormorant Pacific Gull Black-faced Woodswallow Pied Cormorant Silver Gull Dusky Woodswallow Australian Pelican Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Grey Butcherbird Australasian Bittern Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo Australian Magpie Australian Little Bittern Baudin's Black-Cockatoo Grey Currawong Black Bittern Galah Grey Fantail White-necked Heron Western Corella Willie Wagtail Eastern Great Egret Purple-crowned Lorikeet Australian Raven Cattle Egret Regent Parrot Restless Flycatcher White-faced Heron Western Rosella Magpie-lark Little Egret Australian Ringneck Jacky Winter Eastern Reef Egret Red-capped Parrot Scarlet Robin Nankeen Night-Heron Mulga Parrot Red-capped Robin Australian White Ibis Elegant Parrot Hooded Robin Straw-necked Ibis Rock Parrot Western Yellow Robin Yellow-billed Spoonbill Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo White-breasted Robin Eastern Osprey Shining Bronze-Cuckoo Australian Reed-Warbler Black-shouldered Kite Pallid Cuckoo Little Grassbird Square-tailed Kite Fan-tailed Cuckoo Rufous Songlark White-bellied Sea-Eagle Barking Owl Brown Songlark Whistling Kite Southern Boobook Silvereye Brown Goshawk Masked Owl Welcome Swallow Collared Sparrowhawk Eastern Barn Owl Fairy Martin Spotted Harrier Laughing Kookaburra Tree Martin Swamp Harrier Sacred Kingfisher Red-eared Firetail Wedge-tailed Eagle Rainbow Bee-eater Australasian Pipit Little Eagle Rufous Treecreeper Nankeen Kestrel Splendid Fairy-wren Australian Wood Duck Grey Fantail During the day it is often Very inquisitive bird seen in and around farm and will often come Splendid Fairy-wren dams and feeds in close to intruders. In family groups it is found in grasslands. Distinctive Restless and active. low vegetation. Only the call is a prolonged 'wow'. breeding male has this spectacular blue plumage. Shining Bronze-Cuckoo Common in forest Australian Pied Oystercatcher scrublands and adjoining Sturdy wader seen in coastal open country during winter. Its call is a series of clear areas foraging with its White-browed Scrubwren conspicuous beak for molluscs high-pitched whistles with an upward inflection. Singly, pairs or parties. and crustaceans. Tends to be noisy revealing their presence in the undergrowth and lower levels of trees. Pallid Cuckoo Adults move north between Sooty Oystercatcher spring and midwinter. They lay their eggs mainly in the Habits like the Pied nests of honeyeaters. Oystercatcher but more Yellow-rumped solitary. Singles or pairs. Thornbill Usually found in open woodlands, paddocks and roadsides, in pairs or small flocks. Often feeds on the BIRDS AUSTRALIA WESTERN AUSTRALIA ground. Are you interested in joining? Then ring 9383-7749 for further information, or visit our office Monday to Friday at: 167 Perry Lakes Drive, Floreat, 6014. Caspian Tern Email: [email protected] White-breasted Robin Largest tern with Web: www.birdsaustralia.com.au/wa Commonly seen along creeks powerful scarlet bill, and in dense forest vegetation. seen along the coastline ALL WELCOME The short 'chit' of the alarm call and on sandspits in the may be heard along walktrails. inlet. Walpole-Nornalup National Parks Association Formed in 1987 to encourage interest and good management of our local national parks. Please join us. Call 9840-1309. Red-eared Firetail Seen in undergrowth and Golden Whistler along the edges of forest Found in a variety of tracks feeding in sedges habitats. Female is grey and grass. A colourful bird brown. Distinctive call with a mournful call 'oowee'. Western Spinebill ends with a whip-like Female is much plainer. Flight is crack 'wi-wi-wi-you wit.’ erratic with quick 'flip-flop'. Found in most habitats. Rock Parrot Found on low vegetation Grey Shrike-thrush on islands, beaches and Singly or in pairs they forage dunes. Attracted to on branches or on the seeding plants. Its voice is White-naped Honeyeater ground. The call is melodious a sharp 'tsiit' or 'tsiittseet'. Usually seen and heard in and distinctive, a single loud the higher foliage of forests. note or several syllables One of the calls is a rising strongly at the end. scratchy ‘shirp, shirp, shirp’. White-bellied Sea Eagle Seen above the rivers and inlets. Swoops from a New Holland Honeyeater Rufous Treecreeper height to seize fish from the Noisy and gregarious. Will Seen on tree trunks and often surface. Will also feed on often chase off other birds. feeding on the ground. carrion. Active at blossom time, Common at Mt. Frankland such as when Banksia looking for picnic leftovers. seminuda is flowering. Nankeen Kestrel Grey Currawong A small falcon often seen Scarlet Robin Furtive large grey bird hovering over paddocks Often seen on low branches with robust bill. Voice is and road verges with tail or fence wires, a good a ringing 'chling-chling'. fanned before dropping vantage point for spotting Forages on the ground on its prey. insects. Female has a paler breast. and in foliage..